Friday, February 15, 2013

Family hears about final moments of fallen son in Afghanistan

Soldier Describes Shooting Rampage That Killed L.I. Marine
By Pei-Sze Cheng
Friday, Feb 15, 2013

Six months after a Long Island soldier was shot and killed in Afghanistan, his heartbroken family continues to seek answers about his death.

Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr., 21, was killed last August when an Afghani man who worked on Buckley's base went on a shooting rampage. Buckley and two of his comrades died.

Buckley's family in Oceanside was initially told the shooter was an Afghani policeman being trained by American soldiers on the base. The military hasn't completed its investigation, but his relatives have been talking to witnesses and are raising doubts about what they were first told.
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